Hondo posted a modest gain on his deficit Wednesday when he hit with the Yanks, Reds and Dodgers to overwhelm his losses with the Giants and Mariners and reduce his deficit to 1,535 stargells.

Thursday: Mr. Aitch sees a Locke in the Pitching Form so he will put 10 units on the Pirates. Also, 10 on the Nats to be Zim dandy against Los Bravos.

Hondo is slumping so badly he’s losing games faster than Lois Lerner and the IRS are losing incriminating emails. … Jay Carney’s last briefing to the White House press corps reportedly drew an SRO crowd Wednesday. Apparently, everyone wanted to attend so they could say they were there when he told his final lies. … Speaking of lies, in an interview with Fox News, Hillary Clinton blamed “the fog of war” for the confusion surrounding the original reports about Benghazi. The Portly Pantsuit, of course, learned all about “the fog of war” that day in 1996 when she had to dodge heavy sniper fire on a tarmac in Bosnia.